http://gizmodo.com/cops-busted-planting-drugs-by-their-own-body-cameras-1797059470
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XMdJWhDfMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XMdJWhDfMs
Take, for example, this group of scuzzballs in Maryland caught on camera earlier this year placing a bag of dope in an alley, returning only moments later to “discover” it among a heap of garbage. The person they arrested for the dope they “found” was apparently jailed in January and only released last week after a public defender discovered the 90-second footage.
These cops—one of whom testified against another defendant in a separate case earlier this month, according to the Baltimore sun—were only busted because they’d forgotten to read the manual on the bodycams they’d been outfitted with. Even when turned off, the cameras are continually recording video with a 30-second buffer, meaning whenever the device is activated the prior half minute is also saved automatically.
While two other cops stand by, the video shows one officer placing a soup can containing a plastic bag—presumably containing drugs—into a pile of garbage behind a gray brick building. He then walks back into the street and flips the camera on.
“I’m gonna go check here,” he says, before walking back to where he’d just stashed the shit and pretending to poke around. After turning over a rock and examining a few other pieces of trash, he picks up the can of soup and “finds” the baggie.
“We take allegations like this very seriously and that’s why we launched an internal investigation into the accusations,” the Baltimore Police Department said in a statement. “We are fortunate to have Body Worn Cameras which provide a perspective of the events as reported.”